The Comparative Method in the Study of Religion and Race: a Reflection on Lincoln and Freiberger
This essay compares Bruce Lincoln’s Apples and Oranges with Oliver Freiberger’s Considering Comparison and applies lessons derived from these works to my own research in the fields of religion and race. Attention to both authors’ concerns with the relationship between definitions and theories, as we...
| Published in: | Method & theory in the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Review of: | Apples and oranges (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018) (Prentiss, Craig R.)
Considering comparison (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019) (Prentiss, Craig R.) |
| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Comparison B Religious Studies B Classification B Race B Oliver Freiberger B Discourse Theory B Bruce Lincoln |
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| Summary: | This essay compares Bruce Lincoln’s Apples and Oranges with Oliver Freiberger’s Considering Comparison and applies lessons derived from these works to my own research in the fields of religion and race. Attention to both authors’ concerns with the relationship between definitions and theories, as well as positionality and scope, result in my confusion as to whether the categories of “religion” and “race” can be profitably compared without being trapped in a world of tautology. Yet their shared emphases on comparison as a heuristic enterprise may open a path for making useful claims in this area of research by means of comparative method. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Comparison Considered (2020)"
Kritik in "By Way of Response (2020)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341490 |